Women who stay : seafaring and subjectification in an Ilocos town /

This book addresses the question of how women married to seafarers are shaped by migration and how they in turn shape migration. Looking at subjectivity as social becoming, it examines how Ilokano, Philippine and global historical and economic processes have shaped the women's lives and experie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Galam, Roderick G. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Quezon City, Philippines : Ateneo de Manila University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Merchant mariners' spouses > Philippines > Ilocos > Social conditions. Merchant mariners' spouses > Family relationships > Philippines > Ilocos. Migrant laborers' spouses > Philippines > Ilocos > Social conditions. Merchant mariners > Philippines > Ilocos.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Durable and enduring selves
Seafaring labor and seafarers' wives
Lung-aw and migration subjectivity
Bukodmo Amin: routine, responsibility, and subjectification
Communication and imagined communion
Dibersyon and Isu Pay: gossip and the morality of mobility
Women working: Isu Pay and moral rationality
Panagbukbukod and relational autonomy
Conclusion: hopeful and strategic subjectivity.